Question regarding accessing Samba / please respond

[Martin Rusko]

Well, first of all, if I would try to get working your setup, I would try some 
simple config. So no security = domain and so on...

Try security = user, make sure, that your user is available in unix password 
database (/etc/password, /etc/shadow... whatever you have), make 
smbpasswd file and add your user into that file by "smbpasswd -a 
user_name". Then make sure, that your guest account is working (in your 
case it is "www"). Write me again, if this setup is working for you.

One thing else, is it possible for you, to upgrade to some newer version of 
samba? Could you attach your log files next tima also, and NOT with .doc 
extension please? ;-))

    Have a nice day...

                     mARTin

On 16 Jan 02, at 16:19, Gourgy, Mona wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have sent you an e-mail earlier last week and it was suggested to me to
> test all steps discussed in the Troubleshooting section.  I ran the tests
> but I feel more lost than before.  First, I will describe the problem again.
> We currently have an HP-UX 11.0 server with the name hptest.  We are running
> Windows 2000.  I am trying to connect to the samba shares from Network
> Neighborhood or using start, run, \\hptest. But, I get the following error
> message:
> 
> The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect
> 
> I discussed this issue with a different user, but apparently he has a
> different problem.  He is being prompted for a password, but when he puts in
> the username and password for the root Unix server, it doesn't work.  
> 
> Questions:
> How come this works differently on the 2 machines?
> Where is this username and password prompt coming from?  Is coming from
> Samba or from the Windows 2000 server?  
> Why doesn't the Unix root password work?
> 
> 
> I have attached our smb.conf file and here are some of the problems I
> experienced when I followed the troubleshooting section.  For the password,
> I supplied the Unix password for root.  I also tired my personal Unix
> password and I got the same results.
> 
> hptest:Root:/ =>smbclient '\\hptest\temp'
> 
> Added interface ip=172.20.0.60 bcast=172.20.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0
> Got a positive name query response from 172.20.1.232 ( 172.20.0.60 )
> Password: 
> session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair
> in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
> 
> 
> Similary, when I issue:
> 
> smbclient -L hptest
> 
> Added interface ip=172.20.0.60 bcast=172.20.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0
> Got a positive name query response from 172.20.1.232 ( 172.20.0.60 )
> Password: 
> session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair
> in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
> hptest:Root:/ =>
> 
> 
> nmblookup -B hptest
> Sending queries to 172.20.0.60
> 
> 
> 	I am new to this, but I was told when we were running on NT,
> browsing was working.  I don't know if this means we have to change
> something in the smb.conf file or not.  Can you please give me any ideas.
> If you need to get any additional information about our environment, I'll be
> happy to supply it.  Thanks for your time and help.  
> 
> 
>  <<smbconf configuration file.doc>> 
> Mona Gourgy
> Information Systems
> Stelco Inc. 
> Phone:  (905) 528-2511 ext. 4133
> Fax:  (905) 577-4533
> mailto:mona.gourgy at stelco.ca
> 
> 


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